{"id":11884,"date":"2021-04-07T23:37:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T06:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2021-04-09T07:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:50:54","slug":"post2-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11884","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[The JRB Daily] 2021 Humanities and Social Sciences Awards winners announced\u2014including The JRB\u2019s Makhosazana Xaba and Niq Mhlongo&#8221;, Johannesburg Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author vcard\">Jennifer Malec, Johannesburg, April 1, 2021<\/span><\/span><i class=\"fa fa-comments-o spaceLeftRight\"><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The winners of the 2021 Humanities and Social Sciences Awards (HSS Awards) have been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The winners were announced at an awards ceremony at Maropeng at The Cradle of Humankind last night.<\/p>\n<p>The JRB Patron <a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/author\/makhosazana-xaba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Makhosazana Xaba<\/a> was a joint winner of Best Non-Fiction Edited Volume for her book <a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/tag\/our-words-our-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets<\/em><\/a>, while City Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/author\/niq-mhlongo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Niq Mhlongo<\/a> won Best Fiction Edited Volume for <a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/2020\/10\/08\/johannesburg-swallowed-my-father-whole-read-an-excerpt-from-feasting-by-sibongile-fisher-excerpted-from-the-new-anthology-joburg-noir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Joburg Noir<\/em><\/a>. Congratulations to them and all the winners!<\/p>\n<p>The Humanities and Social Sciences Awards, now in their sixth year, are co-ordinated by The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and open to South African publishers, scholars based in South African universities and independent artists linked to universities.<\/p>\n<p>The awards honour \u2018outstanding, innovative and socially responsive scholarship, creative as well as digital contributions that enhance and advance fields in the humanities and social sciences\u2019 and \u2018recognise and celebrate those members of the Humanities and Social Sciences community who are undertaking the necessary work of creating post-apartheid and postcolonial forms of scholarship, creative production, and digital humanities outputs\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>From 36 submissions in 2017, the awards have grown and had 82 submissions this year.<\/p>\n<h2>2021 Humanities and Social Sciences Awards winners<\/h2>\n<h3>Best Fiction Single Authored Volume<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Joint winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/2021\/02\/18\/to-move-about-in-an-unkind-world-under-the-mark-of-racial-blackness-wamuwi-mbao-reviews-scatterlings-the-debut-novel-by-resoketswe-manenzhe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Scatterlings <\/em>by Re\u015doket\u015dwe Manenzhe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Reggie and Me<\/em> by James Hendry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Scatterlings <\/em>by Re\u015doket\u015dwe Manenzhe<\/li>\n<li><em>The Unfamous Five<\/em> by Nedine Moonsamy<\/li>\n<li><em>Innie Shadows<\/em> by Olivia M Coetzee<\/li>\n<li><em>Reggie and Me<\/em> by James Hendry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Fiction Edited Volume<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/2020\/10\/08\/johannesburg-swallowed-my-father-whole-read-an-excerpt-from-feasting-by-sibongile-fisher-excerpted-from-the-new-anthology-joburg-noir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Joburg Noir<\/em>, edited by Niq Mhlongo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Joburg Noir<\/em>, edited by Niq Mhlongo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/2020\/02\/06\/you-look-fancy-for-a-girl-whos-just-going-to-the-tab-read-the-outsider-by-isabella-morris-excerpted-from-fools-gold-selected-modjaji-short-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Fool\u2019s Gold: Selected Modjaji Short Stories<\/em>, edited by Arja Salafranca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Poetry Award<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/2019\/09\/02\/three-poems-by-musawenkosi-khanyile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>All the Places<\/em> by Musawenkosi Khanyile <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Non-Fiction Edited Volume<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Joint winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sol Plaatje\u2019s Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration<\/em>, edited by Sabata-mpho Mokae and Brian Willan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/tag\/our-words-our-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets<\/em>, edited by Makhosazana Xaba<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Decolonisation in Universities: The Politics of Knowledge<\/em>, edited by Jonathan D Jansen<\/li>\n<li><em>Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets<\/em>, edited by Makhosazana Xaba<\/li>\n<li><em>Township Economy: People, Spaces and Practices<\/em>, edited by Andrew Charman, Leif Petersen and Thireshen Govender<\/li>\n<li><em>Sol Plaatje\u2019s Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration<\/em>, edited by Sabata-mpho Mokae and Brian Willan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Non-Fiction Biography<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams<\/em> by Jamil F Khan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams <\/em>by Jamil F Khan<\/li>\n<li><em>Dennis Brutus: The South African Years<\/em> by Tyrone August<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Non-Fiction Single Authored Monograph<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place<\/em> by Ashwin Desai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/2020\/08\/27\/bessie-heads-work-jolted-me-awake-i-had-not-thought-it-possible-that-a-black-woman-could-be-a-writer-read-an-excerpt-from-barbara-boswells-new-book-and-wrote-my-story-anywa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women\u2019s Novels as Feminism<\/em> by Barbara Boswell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>The Murder of Ahmed Timol: My Search for the Truth<\/em> by Imtiaz Cajee<\/li>\n<li><em>Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place<\/em> by Ashwin Desai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Creative Collections: Public Performance Art<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virtual JOMBA! Festival (Ismail Mahomed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virtual JOMBA! Festival (Ismail Mahomed)<\/li>\n<li>Infecting the City (ITC) public arts festival 2019 (Jay Pather)<\/li>\n<li>Arcade 2019 (Gavin Krastin)<\/li>\n<li>Poetry Africa: Poetry as the Voice of Social Change (Ismail Mahomed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Creative Collections: Visual Art<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: There are Mechanisms in Place (Nkule Mabaso and Nomusa Makhubu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Stronger We Become (Nkule Mabaso and Nomusa Makhubu)<\/li>\n<li>Intimate Presences\/Affective Absences (or, the snake within) (Leora Farber)<\/li>\n<li>Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: There are Mechanisms in Place (Nkule Mabaso and Nomusa Makhubu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Digital Humanities Visualisation or Infographic<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insta-dog: Computing Instagram\u2019s Companion Species (Karli Brittz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insta-dog: Computing Instagram\u2019s Companion Species (Karli Brittz)<\/li>\n<li>GCRO COVID-19 Visualisations and Maps of the Month (Gillian Maree)<\/li>\n<li>Activated: The Social Life of Waste\/Art (Detlev Krige)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburgreviewofbooks.com\/2021\/04\/01\/the-jrb-daily-2021-humanities-and-social-sciences-awards-winners-announced-including-the-jrbs-makhosazana-xaba-and-niq-mhlongo\/\">Johannesburg Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"crestashareiconincontent\" class=\"cresta-share-icon fifth_style\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Malec, Johannesburg, April 1, 2021 The winners of the 2021 Humanities and Social Sciences Awards (HSS Awards) have been announced. The winners were announced at an awards ceremony at Maropeng at The Cradle of Humankind last night. The JRB Patron Makhosazana Xaba was a joint winner of Best Non-Fiction Edited Volume for her book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}